United States Postal Service v. American Postal Workers Union

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that “once a court has decided an issue of fact or law necessary to its judgment, that decision may preclude relitigation of the issue in a suit on a different cause of action involving a party to the first case” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• reversing the district court’s vacatur of an arbitration award when the parties agreed that the arbitrator could decide whether the grievance was arbitrable and he ruled that it was because 9 the grievant was not separated during her probationary period
• “[U]nder Enterprise Wheel and its progeny, the arbitrator has a right to be wrong in his interpretation of the parties’ CBA.”
• “ ‘a federal court may not overrule an arbitrator’s decision simply because the court believes its own interpretation of the contract would be the better one’ ”
• “It does not matter whether [the Court] agree[s] with [an arbitrator’s] reasoning or judgment, so long as [the Court] find[s] that [the] award rested on [the arbitrator’s] construction of the CBA.”
• “It does not matter whether [the Court] agree[s] with [an arbitrator’s] reasoning or judgment, so long as [the Court] find[s] that [the] award rested on [the arbitrator’s] construction of the CBA.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).